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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 30, 2004Hemphill County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2004, 7:29 PM CDT for Hemphill County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 2004, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hemphill County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1725 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1725 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 30, 5:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 5:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 1:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 29 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
100 PM CDT FRI JUL 30 2004

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-310500-
ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH-
DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE-
OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER-
100 PM CDT FRI JUL 30 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES.

.DAY ONE...

ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT MAINLY ACROSS
THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. IF
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY TONIGHT ACROSS THE
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AS WELL AS THE NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE.

GOEHRING

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 7:24 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
724 PM CDT FRI JUL 30 2004

TXZ010-310100-
HEMPHILL-
724 PM CDT FRI JUL 30 2004

...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN HEMPHILL COUNTY...

THROUGH 800 PM...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES EAST OF
CANADIAN WILL SLOWLY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH ALONG THE TEXAS AND
OKLAHOMA STATE LINE.  GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 50 MPH...HAIL UP TO ONE
HALF OF AN INCH IN SIZE...FREQUENT DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH WILL LIKELY
ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.

SLATTERY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill, Wheeler45 min
Jul 30, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAWheeler55 min
Jul 30, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth, Wheeler52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.